Raphta offers Shuri AI an operating system for infrastructure operators. The platform leverages AI, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Edge Computing Technology & Sensor Fusion to provide autonomous platforms that minimize infrastructure risk, optimize actionable insights, improve efficiencies and reduce avoidable costs., Raphta is trusted and identified as a market leader by some of the largest Pan African enterprises like Liquid Telecom, AdaptIT and MTN. We are an early pioneer in the research of machine learning and quantum imaging and are engaged in fundamental and applied research in the areas of deep learning and quantum machine learning to help organizations solve problems and accelerate their digital transformation. Our mission is to build radically different and better technologies that can solve complex problems and foster inclusive innovation We have a world class management, R&D and engineering team from fields such as AI, machine learning, computer science, software engineering, quantum and optics engineering. Raphta is backed by its strategic partner BuiltAfrica Group founded by Thulani Gcabashe (former chairman of Standard Bank Group), leading multinational technology company, IBM and venture capital firm WZ Capital founded by Sango Ntsaluba. It has partnered with leading research labs and schools in South Africa like the University of Witwatersrand and has a strong technical advisory board of leading experts in AI, quantum technologies and digital transformation. The company in 2017 was named after the first metropolis in Africa, a city in Azania, sometimes referred to as the “Atlantis of Africa”. We were initially founded from the experience of one of the founder's friend who became a victim of identity theft and sought to build a facial recognition technology to address the problem.